Effecting change in politics
Digital technologies are now central to how we access healthcare, jobs, and government services. They connect us, and divide us, they bring great benefits, but also great harms. Yet we rarely talk about how we want them to serve our nations.
National Conversations is trying to change the relationship between the digital sector and the political classes - to move discussion about digital technologies to a more central place in political life.
https://nationalconversations.com
The May elections are key transitional events. A new generation of digital native politicians - ones who don't remember before the internet - are starting to arrive with different expectations and attitudes. It comes at a time when the crises and opportunities of tech are more apparent. Digital is critical for economic development and the delivery of public services and how we organise our cultural and social life. But it is also the font of hybrid warfare, disinformation, state surveillance, rampant fraud, sexual abuse and harassment.
This event is for organisers in community- and practitioner-led technical and social digital organisations to meet National Conversations and discuss how we collectively can effect political change.
It is being organised with Silicon Croft